Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

A Conversation with Arthur Groys (Ithaca City of Asylum Artist Protection Fund Fellow)

Meet Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA)'s artist in residence, Arthur Groys, and learn more about his acclaimed work in Russian children's television and subsequent journey from Moscow to Ithaca, NY. Arthur is currently a fellow of the Artist Protection Fund (a program of the Institute of International Education) and in residence at Ithaca College.

Time: 1:00pm

Video Essay Shorts

In this rare chance to see a program of video essay shorts projected on the big screen, some of the most celebrated video essays of recent years dig deep into the archive of sounds and images – old and new – to reimagine and reassemble these sources in surprising new ways as a dazzling means of exploring the world around us and the role of the environment in our cinematic imaginary.

Documentaries on the Sensory Journey (Max Ranieri)
A History of the World According to Getty Images (Richard Misek)
Volcanic Visions (Johannes Binotto)
Fire Film Supercut (Daniel Pope)
Tomahawk Clouds (Eric Marsh)
Onscreen a Dream, Offscreen a Waste (Max Tohline)

Time: 3:30pm

Farming While Black

Mark Decena, USA, 2023, 75 mins

Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, reflects on the plight of Black farmers in the United States. From the height of Black-owned farms at 14% in 1910 to less than 2% today. Leah and her Soul Fire Farm cohorts help propel a rising generation finding strength in the deep historical knowledge of African agrarianism - and its potential to save the planet.

Time: 6:00pm

The End of St. Petersburg

Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet Union, 1927, 90 mins

Created to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, the film tells the story of how the Bolshevik party came to power, but through the lens of a peasant boy’s journey from slave laborer to political revolutionary. Pudovkin employed a mix of classical and montage editing styles to produce a feeling of tension in the audience. The result is both a deeply emotional and stylized work of epic filmmaking. Featuring a live musical accompaniment by long-time FLEFF collaborators, Cloud Chamber Orchestra.

Time: 8:30pm